EMBER DAY OF ST LUCY WEDNESDAY 16th DECEMBER

 EMBER DAY OF ST LUCY

WEDNESDAY 16th DECEMBER



Rorate Caeli, desuper, et nubes pluant justum.
Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down the just.
The Roman Missal entry for this day provides as follows:
On the Wednesday of Ember week in Advent, the Mystery of the Annunciation is commemorated by many churches. The Mass is sung early in the morning. That Mass is sometimes called the Golden Mass, Rorate Mass or Messias Mass. On that occasion the church is lit up as a token that the world was still in darkness when the light of the world appeared. The Mass is called the Golden Mass possibly because in the Middle Age the whole of the Mass or at least the initial letters were written in gold, or on account of the golden magnificence of the solemnity, or more probably on account of the special, great, ‘golden’ grace which, at that time, is obtained by the numerous prayers. It is called Rorate Mass after the first words of the Introit of the Mass: Rorate Caeli; and Messias Mass because the Church, like Our Lady, expresses on that day her longing for the arrival of the Messias.
On this day we pray for our priests, and indeed, for more good priests and we pray and do penance to make atonement for abuses and sacrilege. I have set out a very simple penitential soup below, from Brother Victoire-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette’s book, “Twelve Months of Monastery Soups”, in which he comments that “[t]he very nature of this soup is one of simplicity and frugality, expressing the life of a hermit. This life is one that, in the words of St Paul, ‘is hidden with Christ in God.’ The hermit monk makes use of basic root vegetables for this soup, such as turnips, carrots and onions. Added to these are the inexpensive ingredients of cabbage and rice. “
A HERMIT’S SOUP
INGREDIENTS
1 potato
1 turnip
half a small cabbage
2 carrots 1 onion
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/3 cup rice
4 litres water
salt and thyme
1 Wash and trim the vegetables. Cut and slice into small pieces.
2. Pour oil into a soup pot. Add the vegetables and let them sweat, one at a time, particularly the carrots, to bring out the flavour.
3.Add the rice and water and stir. Keeping the pot covered cook over low heat for 1 hour. Add the salt and thyme and serve.
This is more of an Ember Day soup - no Meat, dairy, oil or wine...

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